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  • The "bee on my arm" gag from the original Jolly Roger bot and the varied reactions to it. These can range from extremely worried, to simply not caring, to calling the bot a wimp and telling it to just flick it off. Even more amusing is that this routine comes in three parts: the initial statement of the bee being on the arm, saying that it's crawling up his arm but that it's okay because it's not mad and finally "Okay, it's gone. Hey, so you know how I said I was listening to you during the bee thing? Actually, I was just concentrating on the bee. So can you start over? Who's this? Why are you calling?" The great part about this is that how quickly these routines progress depends on just how much the caller talks. If the caller repeatedly talks on and on, most likely pitching whatever it is they're selling, the bot will just keep saying things like "Right" and "yes" and so it can be as much as about five minutes from the initial "bee on the arm" to saying that it's gone and telling the caller to start over.
  • One of the Santa bot calls comes in to a debt collector who after a few minutes transfers the call over to a supervisor. The call in its entirety goes on about a half hour because the debt collectors believe that "Santa" is a persona created by the person that they're trying to collect from. Santa has one of the largest sets of routines of any of the bots, though around the half-hour mark the bot starts repeating, though whether the supervisor hangs up because they realized it was a bot or simply because they finally got worn down is unclear.
  • The biz-bot is a hoot. This is actually a bot designed to simulate two different people - an initial male receptionist followed by an incompetent female one. After a couple of minutes of the male one, he will transfer to the female one, "Polly Crackers." Polly claims that she's not really the receptionist and is just filling in, claims she has to try to type everything into a text to send to her manager, gets distracted by a hot guy walking by her desk, and claims that all of her lines are flashing and she doesn't know who she's talking to.
  • The reaction any time one of the callers actually figures out that they're speaking to a bot.
  • Salty Sally's Bratty Teenage Daughter, particularly the routine with her missing leggings. Salty Sally tells her to check her room, then when she says that they're not there to check her brother's room.
  • The bot designed to speak with Social Security and IRS scammers claims to have multiple Social Security numbers, asking which identity the scammer is calling about.

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